Charles gulden



(No Model.)

0. GULDEN.

GAP FOR MUSTARD BOTTLES. No. 271,237. Patented Jan. 30, 18183.

. NITED STATES PATENT OFFIQE.

CHARLES GULDEN, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.-

CAP FOR MUSTARD-BOTTLES.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 271,237, dated January 30, 1883,

Application filed December 19. 1882. (No model.)

10 all whom it may concern Be it known that I, UHARLEs GULDEN, of New York in the county and State of New York, have invented an Improved Gap for Mustard-Bottles, of which the following is a specification.

Figure l is a vertical central section of a mustard-bottle carrying my improved cap, the plane of section being indicated by the line 0 c, Fig. 2. Fig. 2 is a plan or top view of said cap on the mustard-bottle, showing the cap closed. Fig. 2) is a plan view thereof, showing the cap open. Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-section on the line k k, Fig. 2', and Fig. 5 is a perspective view of the cap.

'This invention relates to a new attachment for mustard-bottles and the like, for the purpose of protecting the contents thereof'practically against contact with the air and with impurities; and the invention consistsin com billing with a concavo-convex spring-clasp, which is adapted to partly embrace the upper head or rim of the bottle, a hinged cover or lidfas hereinafter more fully described.

In the drawings, the letter A represents the usual n1 ustard-bottle, having at its upper part, near its mouth, the outweirdly-projecting head or rim (1.

i is the spring-clasp, which is of arched form, embracing about three-quarters of a circle, and made of sheet metal or other suitable substance. In cross-section this spring-clasp, as is clearly shown in Fig. 4., is also of arched torm, being convex on the outer and concave on the inner side, and by this doubly'arched form-namely, the vertical arch and the horizontal arch of the clasp B--it is enabled to be sprung upon the head 0. or rim of the bottle and to hold itself securely thereon. Its form allows it to be sprung upon bottles of varying diameters having beads or rims a of varying widths. This spring-clasp B carries the hinged lid 0, which is joined to it by a suitable hingeconnection. The lid 0 has or may have at its free end a holdingcatch, b, which, when the lid is closed down, will catch under that part of, the bead a which is not embraced by the clasp B, as indicated in Figs. 1 and 2.

The lid (J may contain an aperture or recess, indicated (by dotted lines in Fig. 2,)forthe purpose of permitting the spoon that is usually employedin mustard-bottles to be left in the bottle. When a mustard-bottle having this attachment is emptied the attachment can be easily.taken from it and placed upon another mustard-bottle, and so used for an indefinite period of time. The attachment will not hermetically seal the bottle, but will practically keep its contents from contact with impurities and preserve them in fresh condition for as long a time as in practice will be required.

I claim- 1. The concavo-convex arched spring-clasp B combined with the hinged lid 0, substantially as and for the purpose herein shown and described.

2. The spring-claspB, combined with hinged lid 0 and catch b, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

CHARLES GULDEN.

WVitnesses GUSTAVE SGHNEPPE,. J ULIUs HUnLsEN, Jr. 

